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Myrta Merlino
Myrta Merlino in 2022
Born	Myrta Merlino (1969-05-03) 3 May 1969 (age 55) Naples, Campania, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation(s)	Journalist, television presenter and television writer

Myrta Merlino (born 3 May 1969) is an Italian journalist, television writer and presenter.

After working at the Council of Ministers of the European Economic Community, since 1995 she has been a member of the Order of Italian Journalists, working both in various Italian newspapers, including Il Mattino, Il Messaggero, Il Sole 24 Ore, and international ones such as International Herald Tribune and Libération.

During her career she has also written eight books, taking a stand for women's rights, the rights of the LGBTQ community in Italy, freedom of the press and becoming a UNICEF ambassador.

Biography

Daughter of the French scholar Giuseppe Merlino and the sinologist and director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing Annamaria Palermo, she graduated from high school.

Although there is no information on the university she attended, various online biographies report that Merlino graduated with honors in political science with a thesis in international law on the Community Charter of Fundamental Rights of Workers. As her first profession, she was hired at the Directorate-General for the Internal Market in the Financial Services area for the Council of Ministers of the European Economic Community.

Her journalistic career began with a collaboration with the economics page of the newspaper Il Mattino, entering the Order of Italian journalists in 1995. At the same time, she continued her profession within the RAI television schedules, initially dealing with some investigations for the program Mixer, on Rai 2, continuing on Rai 3 by creating the program Italia Maastricht together with Giovanni Minoli and Alan Friedman in 1995. Subsequently, she wrote the programs Energia and Mister Euro, the latter also as co-host, becoming the economic manager of Rai 3. In 1997, she edited and hosted ten episodes of the column on the history of the twentieth century, the sign of the command of the program La Storia siamo noi.

Between 2002 and 2003, she was responsible for information for Rai Educational, and the following year she was a regular guest on the program Casa Raiuno, as an economic expert. Between 2005 and 2008, she was the author and host of the information program Economix, produced by Rai Educational.

In 2009 she arrived at La7, as author and host of Effetto domino, an economic analysis broadcast in the late evening until 2011. Since 2011 she has been the creator, author and host, again on La7, of the program L'aria che tira. In the summer of 2014 Merlino debuted in L'aria che tira stasera, four episodes broadcast on Mondays in prime time. In 2015 she published with Rizzoli Madri. Perché saranno loro a cambiare il Paese. Since November 15, 2020 she has hosted another spin-off of her program entitled L'aria di domenica. In 2023 she left La7 and moved to Mediaset, where she was chosen as host of Pomeriggio Cinque, replacing Barbara D'Urso.

She has also worked for a long time for the radio, hosting, within the Rai Radio 2 program Alle otto della sera, a series of episodes on the history of money and then, again for Rai Radio 2, a series of twenty episodes dedicated to the biographies of the men who changed history through money, entitled Re di Denari. She has written for Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Messaggero, Panorama, International Herald Tribune, Libération, Families in Business, Nord e Sud, Il Secolo XIX, Il Resto del Carlino, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. She was the author of a dictionary of community terms, distributed in 250,000 copies with the newspapers Il Mattino and La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. Moderator of numerous conferences and public meetings, over the years she has interviewed the main international players in political and economic life.

Personal life

She had two twin sons, Pietro and Giulio Tucci, in 1997 from a relationship that began at the age of twenty-four. From the early 2000s until 2016 she was linked to the former CEO of Invitalia Domenico Arcuri, with whom she had a daughter, Caterina, born in 2001. Since 2016 she has been in a relationship with the former coach and former footballer of Juventus and the national team Marco Tardelli.

Television programs

Television writer

Radio

Works

• La moneta, Sperling & Kupfer editore, 2003
• Gli Affari nostri, Sperling & Kupfer, 2006
• L'aria che tira, Sperling & Kupfer, 2012
• Madri. Perché saranno loro a cambiare il nostro Paese, Rizzoli, 2015
• Donne che sfidano la tempesta, Solferino, 2021

Awards and nominations

References

1. "Myrta Merlino: età, vita privata, marito, figli, ultime notizie". libero.it.
2. "Myrta Merlino, chi è la giornalista che prenderà il posto di Barbara D'Urso a Pomeriggio Cinque? I tre figli, l'amore con l'ex calciatore Marco Tardelli e la carriera". ilmessaggero.it.
3. "Myrta Merlino" (PDF). eastwest.eu.
4. "Myrta Merlino al pomeriggio di Canale 5 al posto di Barbara D'Urso: l'indiscrezione". Fanpage.it.
5. "Myrta Merlino: i tre figli (Caterina, Pietro e Giulio), l'ex marito e il matrimonio con Tardelli". ilgazzettino.it.
6. "Chi è Myrta Merlino, l'esperta di economia che sa parlare alla gente". TGcom24.
7. "Cwmun, Myrta Merlino: "Questi giovani vogliono abbattere muri e creare ponti"". Repubblica TV.
8. "Myrta Merlino lascia L'aria che tira: il commosso messaggio di addio in diretta". il Fatto Quotidiano.
9. ""Myrta Merlino prenderà il posto di Barbara D'Urso alla conduzione di Pomeriggio Cinque". La "fatalità" che non è passata inosservata". il Fatto Quotidiano.
10. "Myrta Merlino telegiornalista". telegiornaliste.com.
11. "Myrta Merlino: i tre figli (Caterina, Pietro e Giulio), l'ex marito e il matrimonio con Tardelli". ilmessaggero.it.
12. "Myrta Merlino e l'ex compagno Domenico Arcuri: "Non è stato semplice durante il lockdown, nostra figlia ci vedeva in tv su canali diversi"". il Fatto Quotidiano.
13. "Giornalismo: a Peter Gomez e Myrta Merlino il "Premio Sulmona"". agi.it.
14. "Premio Semplicemente Donna 2016: Myrta Merlino - Premio "Informazione"". premiosemplicementedonna.com.
15. "Myrta Merlino vince il Premio giornalistico Matilde Serao: "Il mio premio più bello"". ilmattino.it.
16. "X Edizione del Premio Nazionale Pratola. Tra i premiati Maria Teresa Letta, Myrta Merlino, Alessandro De Angelis e Lina Palmerini". espressione24.it.
17. "Su Rai 1 la XIII edizione del Premio Biagio Agnes a Palazzo Reale di Napoli". RAI Ufficio Stampa.
18. "Premio Pio Alferano 2022, è Castellabate a ospitare l'evento". ANSA.

External links

• Myrta Merlino at IMDb
• Myrta Merlino on Facebook
• Myrta Merlino on Instagram
• Myrta Merlino on Twitter

• 1969 births
• Journalists from Rome
• Italian women journalists
• Italian women television presenters
• People from Naples
• Mass media people from Rome
• 20th-century Italian journalists
• 21st-century Italian journalists
• Living people